Society of Automotive Engineers 
Formula Design Competition

Design Event                Tilt Table
Engineering Design                                                          Tilt Table
2004 FSAE Competition

Objective: 

The Formula SAE competition is for engineering students to conceive, design, fabricate, and compete with small formula-style cars. 
Restrictions: The car frame and engine are limited so that the knowledge, creativity, and imagination of the students are challenged. 
Team work: The cars are built with a team effort over a period of about one year, with seniors getting college credit for DES and DMS projects on the car, and are taken to a host institution for judging and comparison with approximately 140 other competitors from across the nation. 
Result: A great experience for young engineers to participate in a meaningful engineering project as well as the opportunity of working in a dedicated team effort. 
Purpose: For this competition, the students are to assume that a manufacturing firm has engaged them to produce a prototype car for evaluation as a potential production item. The intended sales market is the nonprofessional weekend auto cross racer. The car must be low cost, easy to maintain, and reliable. The manufacturing firm is planning to produce 4 cars a day at a cost below $25,000. The challenge to the design team is to design and fabricate a prototype car that best meets these goals and intents. 
Judging: The cars are judged in a series of static and dynamic events including: Technical Inspection, Cost, Presentation, and Engineering Design, Solo Performance Trials, and High Performance Track Endurance. These events are scored to determine how well the car performs. In each event, the manufacturing firm has specified minimum acceptable performance levels that are reflected in the scoring equations. The following points are possible: 
    STATIC EVENTS

     PRESENTATION 
     ENGINEERING DESIGN
     COST ANALYSIS 

DYNAMIC EVENTS

     ACCELERATION
     SKID-PAD EVENT
     AUTOCROSS EVENT
     FUEL ECONOMY
     ENDURANCE TRACK EVENT
TOTAL POINTS

75
150
100



75
50
150
  50
350
1000 		Skid-Pad Prep
2004 FSAE Competition
Skid-Pad Preparation in the Rain

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